Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Rights

ALMT Legal recognizes the importance of Intellectual Property (IP) in the growing global economy. The Firm has developed a focused and unique IP practice to meet the needs of innovation driven corporations and business. The firm provides its clients with real time resources to match client requirements to protect their intellectual assets globally. The IP team strives to ensure that clients are given clear legal advice whilst recognizing the importance of finding strategic and practical solutions in a commercial environment.

Our team assists and advises on obtaining a wide range of IP registrations for protecting and managing the IP portfolio of our clients. We assist clients to formulate a comprehensive and holistic IP Policy with the background of the business model of the client to enable effective management of the clients’ intellectual assets.

Our multidisciplinary team provides a depth of experience combined with recent up-to-date technical knowledge. The unique blend of technical, legal and commercial expertise helps us to provide strategic advice to our clients in India and around the world.

Our experience includes:

Patent Prior Art Search
Patentability Analysis
Freedom to Operate Searc
Patent Validity Search
Patent Mapping
Patent Specification Drafting and filing in India & other countries
Drafting and filing PCT applications
Attendance to Office Actions and filing Responses
Patent Prosecution
IP Due Diligence & IP Auditing
Trademark filings & securing Registrations in multiple jurisdictions including India.
Advising and securing Copyright Registrations and Design Registrations in multiple jurisdictions.
Advising & filing Pre-grant & Post-grant Patent Oppositions before Indian Patent Office.
Advising & filing Pre-grant & Post-grant Patent Oppositions before Indian Patent Office

Sample Transactions:

Advised a US-based tele-medicines company in filing and obtaining the grant of patents in the field of tele-medicines in India.
Advised a Canada-based pharmaceutical drug company, having its office in Kolkata on various applications relating to filing patents in India and USA. ALMT Legal has been instrumental in filing patent applications for their products before the Indian Patent Office.
The IP team has conducted IP Audits for one of the leading Innovation Consultancy firm in India and USA.
The team has advised and continues to handle the entire IP portfolio of an Indian entity in the fields of embedded system division, metering devices division and medical division in India, USA and China. ALMT has helped the Company to set up the IP division. The IP team has been instrumental in providing assistance for building the IP portfolio of the Company and increasing patent application filings from 2 patent applications per year to 125 patent applications a year presently.
The IP team is assisting an Indian company in the field of wireless and communication devices for their IP filings in India. The team has advised on Patent filings, Trademark filings and securing Design registrations in India.
The IP team is advising one of the leading e-learning software developers in India. The team is assisting clients on drafting and filing patent applications in USA and India for one of their popular product in e-learning software domain.
The IP team is currently advising on Trademark registrations and managing registrations in 6 countries for one of the leading Indian Pharmaceutical manufacturers.
The IP team is currently advising an Indian company on trademark filings and securing trademark registrations in around 35 countries globally.
The IP team is currently advising a Netherlands based company on a Patent Opposition matter before the Indian Patent Office.
The IP team is advising and handling PCT applications for a leading bio-fuel company based out of India.